How do you quote a playwright?

How do you quote a playwright?

Cite the playwright first, then the play title in quotes. Some long plays are published as a single book. After the publication year, include the database in italics and then the permanent link to the book.See the document below for commonly-used Shakespearean play abbreviations.

What kind of language does Hamlet use to convey his perspective?

He uses prose primarily with Ophelia, Polonius, Claudius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. But to Horatio and Gertrude, Hamlet speaks in iambic pentameter.

What style of writing is Romeo and Juliet?

He begins with a 14-line prologue in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, spoken by a Chorus. Most of Romeo and Juliet is, however, written in blank verse, and much of it in strict iambic pentameter, with less rhythmic variation than in most of Shakespeare’s later plays.

What type of poem is the prologue of Romeo and Juliet?

sonnets

What is the rhyme scheme of Act 2 Scene 3?

Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 3, is written entirely in couplets. In the excerpt above, Friar Laurence uses two couplets to express his shock at Romeo’s request to marry Juliet… today! Lyric poem with 14 lines; first 12 have ABAB, CDCD, EFEF rhyme scheme; last two have GG (a rhyming couplet).